By Jason Cruz Northwest Asian Weekly Anthony Kim gave a rare media interview in which the former PGA Tour player spoke about when, or if he will return to the tour. Kim, who is battling numerous injuries, went off the radar after leaving the tour in 2012. He was only 26 years old. Last September, […]
VISIONARY: Ravi Ramineni — Sounders find strength in numbers
By Jason Cruz Northwest Asian Weekly Three years ago, seeking to network and find like-minded people with a love of numbers and soccer, Ravi Ramineni traveled cross country to Boston to attend the MIT Sloan Analytics Sports Analytics Conference. This year, he found himself speaking at the conference. The former Microsoft program manager, Ramineni is […]
From data-crunching to Sounders — Ramineni scores the dream job
By Taylor Soper Geekwire.com Having worked at Microsoft for seven years on projects like Bing and fraud management, Ravi Ramineni understands how to extract relevant information from massive datasets. He also happens to be a huge soccer fan and spent much of his down time away from Redmond analyzing soccer-related data and analytics on his blog AnalyseFootball. So it makes sense […]
5 women accused of being witches beaten to death in India
PATNA, India (AP) — Dozens of villagers in eastern India beat to death five women Saturday, accusing them of practicing witchcraft and blaming them for a series of misfortunes in the village, police said. Residents of Kinjia village in Jharkhand state dragged the women out of their homes and beat them with sticks and iron […]
Jose Llana pulls on the royal cloak in ‘The King and I’
By Mark Kennedy AP Drama Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Jose Llana got his first professional acting gig by trying on his dream role: professional actor. The talented singer and performer was 19 when he skipped class to attend an Equity audition for the 1996 Broadway revival of “The King and I,” despite not […]
As A-bomb survivors age, Japanese pass storytelling to young
By Mari Yamaguchi Associated Press KUNITACHI, Japan (AP) — On a recent weekend, an 84-year-old survivor of the Nagasaki atomic bombing retraced his movements on a map: the inferno during his 20-kilometer (12-mile) walk home, the “black rain” of falling radioactive particles and how he felt sick days later. His audience of eight listened intently, […]
COMMENTARY: Remembering Anne Wing
By Bettie Luke Northwest Asian Weekly Anne Wing was the only Auntie I ever knew. In my mind, I playfully thought of her as my “Favorite Auntie.” She was married to David Luke, who often said how proud he was to be the closest relative to our family. David told me when he was standing […]
Feds: 2 men traveled to Philippines for murder-for-hire plot
By Larry Neumeister Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Two North Carolina men were arrested July 22 on charges that they carried out a contract killing, allegedly leaving a woman dead on a garbage pile in the Philippines before each collected a portion of their $35,000 fee. An indictment unsealed in U.S. District Court in […]
The Internet f looded with tributes to Nintendo chief
By Yuri Kageyama AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Nintendo Co. President Satoru Iwata’s death from an illness at 55 is being mourned by game fans around the world. They’re sharing Iwata Mii avatars, creating pictures with farewell messages on the Nintendo drawing game Splatoon and sending Tweets with “ThankYouIwata” hashtags. Some of the online […]
BLOG: Avoid or endorse? — Politics can pose challenges for ethnic media
By Assunta Ng People expect the Northwest Asian Weekly, a relatively small paper, to act like a big media company when it comes to election time. Candidates’ questions cover the myriad, such as: “Do you do endorsements?” “Can you do an interview?” “Why haven’t you contacted me?” . . . These questions keep popping up […]
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